Well I am now in beautiful Guatemala! This has been a great adventure so far and its only getting better. Started out in D.C. monday night where I was roomed with Alex from sacramento. We went out and had a great time meeting other soon-to-be volunteers and such. The next day was orientation and we met all of the 33 people going to Guate with us. It truly is a great group of people, they are all totally awesome and nice. Some really fun people and a lot from Cali. We are already good friends. The PC attracts pretty interesting people from all sorts of backgrounds.
After 2 hours of sleep we went to the airport and waited. Got to Guatemala around noon and soon met our 3-day host families. Well most people did; I found out that there was no room for me so a teacher had to scramble around and find another place for me to stay. Ended up staying at a spa-type place complete with sauna and a sweet garden and a nice older couple running it. Cooold showers tho, but that was to be expected. Actually, bucket baths were to be expected so the shower was a nice amenity (sp?). I think they are pretty well-off because we have had meat with each meal. Today was classes, a spanish test, and other orientation stuff. Tomorrow will be more of the same and saturday we move to our host-families that will take care of us for the next 3 months.
Hmm, not much else to say, adios!
